Student sentenced for bomb-scare ‘artwork’ on Newcastle bridge

33-year-old Thomas Ellison, from Fenham in Newcastle, has been sentenced to 90 hours of community service for placing a lunchbox with a circuit board and a doll on a major bridge in the city in 2017 as ‘art’. Roads were sealed, trains were stopped and the emergency services were called – at a total cost of £3,500 – while the apparent bomb threat was investigated.